Marine Killed in Iraq
by Nancy Cook
WRNI (September 7, 2006)

In just a matter of weeks, Lieutenant Corporal Eric Valdepenas would have returned from Iraq to his large, close knit family in Seekonk, a small community by the Rhode Island border.

The 21-year-old had been assigned to the Marine Reserve's First Battalion with the 25th Marine Regiment, which is headquartered in Ayer, Massachusetts . He was on patrol in the Al Anbar Province on Monday when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle. Valdepenas and two other Marines from his unit died in the attack.

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